The haunting melodies of Rajasthan are born from a variety of delightfully primitive looking instruments that have the power of the captivate your senses and transport you to the golden realm of the royal state of Rajasthan.
An Old Playing a Rajasthani Sarangi
The musical instruments are essential in making the traditional music of rajasthan more melodious. Simple instruments are used with the songs and these are played with such expertise that the songs sound incomplete without them. Some of these instruments are self-sufficient. They are played individually i.e. without any lyrics.
The vast array of Rajasthani folk instruments is made ingeniously from a variety of materials. Shells of dried gourds of all shapes and sizes are used forgoes stems or bamboos segments for flutes and baked clay pots for drums. Conch shells are blown to produce full, resonant sounds, sticks create a rasping rhythms and ghungroos (brass bells) jingle on waists and ankles.
Type of Musical Instruments in Rajasthan
The Rajasthani musical instruments can be classified into
- Percussion Instruments,
- Wind Instruments
- Autophonic instruments
- String Instruments
The Sindhi Sarangi, the Gujratan sarangi, the jogiya sarangi, srimandal and the rawanhathha are the important stringed instruments used in Rajasthan.
Other stringed instruments include the revaj, dusaka , apang, Dilruba and the five-stringed tandoora.
